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[[File:Harold_Shipman_mug_shot.jpg|right|300px]]'''Harold Fredrick Shipman''' was a <span style="font-size:13px;">British doctor and one of the most prolific serial killers in recorded history by proven murders with 250+ murders being positively ascribed to him.</span> | [[File:Harold_Shipman_mug_shot.jpg|right|300px]]'''Harold Fredrick Shipman''' was a <span style="font-size:13px;">British doctor and one of the most prolific serial killers in recorded history by proven murders with 250+ murders being positively ascribed to him.</span> | ||
On 31 January 2000, a jury found Shipman guilty of 15 murders. He was sentenced to | On 31 January 2000, a jury found Shipman guilty of 15 murders. He was sentenced to life imprisonment and the judge recommended that he never be released. | ||
After his | After his trial began on 1 September 2000. Lasting almost two years, it was an investigation into all deaths certified by Shipman. About 80% of his victims were women. His youngest victim was a 41-year-old man. Much of Britain's legal structure concerning health care and medicine was reviewed and modified as a direct and indirect result of Shipman's crimes. Shipman is the only British doctor who has been found guilty of murdering his patients. | ||
On 13 January 2004, Shipman committed suicide in his cell at | On 13 January 2004, Shipman committed suicide in his cell at Wakerfield Prison in West Yorkshire. | ||
==Early life and career== | ==Early life and career== | ||
Harold Frederick Shipman was born in Bestwood council estate<span style="font-size:11.199999809265137px;line-height:0px;"> </span>in <span style="font-size:13px;">Nottingham, England, the second of four children of Vera and Harold Shipman, a lorry driver. His working class parents were devout Methodists. Shipman was particularly close to his mother, who died of lung cancer when he was 17. Her death came in a manner similar to what later became Shipman's own modus operandi: in the later stages of her disease, she had morphine administered at home by a doctor. Shipman witnessed his mother's pain subside in spite of her terminal condition, up until her death on 21 June 1963. </span> | Harold Frederick Shipman was born in Bestwood council estate<span style="font-size:11.199999809265137px;line-height:0px;"> </span>in <span style="font-size:13px;">Nottingham, England, the second of four children of Vera and Harold Shipman, a lorry driver. His working class parents were devout Methodists. Shipman was particularly close to his mother, who died of lung cancer when he was 17. Her death came in a manner similar to what later became Shipman's own modus operandi: in the later stages of her disease, she had morphine administered at home by a doctor. Shipman witnessed his mother's pain subside in spite of her terminal condition, up until her death on 21 June 1963. </span> |